We must be guarded in purging phthisical persons upward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphorisms] Reference

And in many other diseases people were troubled with swelling, but more especially in phthisical cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of The Epidemics] Reference

It is my impression, that a phthisical person, engaged in the operations of a coal-pit, similar to those in.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

During autumn, and at the commencement of winter, there were phthisical complaints, continual fevers; and, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of The Epidemics] Reference

Victorius gives a serious account of a consumptive, hectical, phthisical woman, who was suddenly cured by the intercession of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter to a Friend] Reference

Easy is it now to understand the similarity between the "cold abscess" of the cervical region and the "cold abscess" of the lung in a phthisical patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference

A woman with as much colour would have been accused of painting; in him it gave to some people the idea of superabundant health, to others it suggested a phthisical tendency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

That it eases phthisical cough there can be no doubt; in fact, some of the patients scarcely took their cough mixtures at all -- an unmixed boon to phthisical sufferers with delicate stomachs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference

Of all those which are described under this constitution, the phthisical diseases alone were of a fatal character; for in all the others the patients bore up well, and did not die of the other fevers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of The Epidemics] Reference

Hence with white people a moderate degree of hepatic obstruction, by a residence in swampy districts, is often found beneficial in diminishing the exalted sensibility and irritability of phthisical patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

I will continue the research by careful weighings of early cases; and will further endeavor to ascertain whether the addition of mullein to the cultivating solution prevents the propagation of the phthisical bacillus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference

"The company says there was a phthisical tendency.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fruit of the Tree] Reference

The truth is, I 've grown lately rather phthisical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Juan] Reference

Both the nephritic and phthisical groups need further intensive study.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

When he had spoken, his voice had had the flat, deadly softness of the exhausted phthisical sufferer's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

The phthisical chest is often long and narrow, and with great obliquity of the ribs and projection of the scapulæ.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 4c. The Costal Cartilages] Reference

Death from cold and exposure stared him in the face; he remembered he was of phthisical tendency, and began coughing tentatively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners)] Reference

"And I also," said the dwarf, who was toiling to keep up with the longer strides of his companions, and therefore spoke in a very phthisical tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peveril of the Peak] Reference

In the convalescence, the lungs were affected, he coughed, and in expectoration raised great quantities of phlegm, and really resembled a phthisical patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Malta is a famous resort for phthisical patients, although during the winter and spring the weather is cold and variable, and in autumn the sirocco is frequent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852] Reference

I have seen an old woman, in a red cloak, hold him for half an hour together with some long phthisical tale of distress, which Master Simon listened to with many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference

Val-de-Grace, in presence of several of his colleagues, extracted granular matter from the body of a phthisical subject, and introduced it under his own integument.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother] Reference

The few available cases in this series seem consistent with the hypothesis of phthisical euphoria (IV, "happiest woman in the world," hearing God's voice, VII and possibly XI).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

A sudden fright, unfavorable news, grief, loss of property, etc., circumstances which affect the mind and nervous system, almost invariably throw the phthisical into a paroxysm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

CaseIV ( "happiest woman in the world"), was phthisical (cf.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

"It's likely to, where there is the least phthisical tendency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fruit of the Tree] Reference

"My dear fellow, you're a phthisical subject -- not to mince matters.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

The remainder of the Pleasant or Not Unpleasant Group as originally constituted consists of VII, a phthisical case (cf.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

"Some phthisical sufferers, of whom there are here, alas! too many, were now admitted from time to time into St. Vincent's Hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference

So much concerning the phthisical affections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of The Epidemics] Reference

1882, the following easy method to detect in the expectorated matter of phthisical persons the pathogenic tubercle bacilli.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference

Already he grew phthisical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse] Reference